Definitions
A tree or shrub often found near water, with cone-like fruits.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English aldre, alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō, *alizō, *alisō.
Used in a sentence
“I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.”
“Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.”
“That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in the alder.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Waterside hardwood”5 letters
02“Waterside tree”5 letters
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